Catastrophic Failures Newsletter

But Why?

Even though everyone has a newsletter, we decided to create yet another one. We’ve grown increasingly concerned with limited outreach by electronics and computer hardware companies after components have been found to fail in spectacular ways. We hope to use this newsletter sparingly; however, our goal with it is to perform the outreach we believe these companies should be performing. Although our YouTube channel reaches sometimes millions of people, we want to make sure we have every avenue — algorithm or not — to reach an audience that might be affected by computer hardware failures our lab discovers. We believe companies should be more proactively reaching-out to customers and ringing alarm bells to get ahead of potential catastrophic failures in a household environment. You can subscribe to our newsletter to be alerted by us.

Our Advisory Beliefs

When we’ve found computer hardware fail, we push hard to make sure everyone is aware of what’s happening. A good example is the SOC Voltage Conundrum with the X3D CPUs of 2023: That particular shortcoming of motherboard vendors meant that CPUs would be overvolted in a way that causes slow, long-term degradation of the chip. If customers are not ACTIVELY CONTACTED by the manufacturers, there’s a chance that they never become aware of these shortcomings. If they don’t keep up with the news or fall out of interest in between review cycles of major components, they may never hear about it. In extreme cases, these failures could become safety concerns, and we believe it is the responsibility of the manufacturer to do everything they can to reach the customers. Our belief is that many of them fall short on this responsibility. As such, we’ve created this newsletter so you can get notification from an independent third-party - us - and hopefully stay ahead of at least our findings.